Roxy Bar & Screen, London Bridge, 7pm
This is screening as part of the Scala Beyond, a six-week season celebrating all forms of cinema exhibition across the UK, from film clubs to film festivals, picture palaces to pop-up venues. You can find more details here at the website.
Here is the Roxy Bar & Screen Introduction: Societies
are sundered and man becomes animal in a double bill that celebrates
Britain’s despairing take on the art of collapse. From the colonial
crises of H. G. Wells to the transformed landscapes of J. G. Ballard,
our parables have been saturated by the impending doom of imminent
catastrophe. Filmbar70 presents two visions infused by the
sensibility of the kitchen sink – the ‘70s eco plight of ‘No
Blade of Grass’ and the ‘80s nuked nightmare of ‘Threads’,
the most horrific vision of radioactive desolation put to screen. So,
make yourself comfy and welcome to a world where the remnants of
civilisation have been swept aside and man competes in the savage
wasteland of his own making. Just keep telling yourself “this could
never really happen…”
No
Blade of Grass (1970)
A
virus spreads across the globe, decimating our livestock and
destroying our infrastructure in this adaptation of John
Christopher’s novel. An earnest and often bleak vision of a Britain
where the social codes of old have been abandoned to make way for
brute force and chilling ruthlessness.
Here is the trailer
Threads
(1984)
Push
the button! Designed to scare the bejesus (and succeeding admirably!)
out of an already paranoid nation, this British take on the war to
end all wars unflinchingly shows the horrific results when the cold
war gets very, very hot. Barry Hind’s terrifying vision builds from
bland domesticity to a doomed future where the vestiges of humanity
fade away in an irradiated wasteland. A truly mortifying and
unforgettable experience.
Here is the opening
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